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As I'm sure many readers can attest to, it can be difficult to figure out the "right" path to take in library school in terms of courses. Since I was fairly undecided as to what type of library I wanted to work in I was hoping to take a little bit of everything during my time in graduate school. At Simmons, as part of the general course towards a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science, there are 5 required classes and then you can choose your other 7 electives. You can see my final list of courses here. As you may be able to tell, I was a little all over the board. I think that's because, often, this can be a bit of an organic process where you start seeing what you like and don't like, based on classes, internships, other experiences, etc.
However, none of this probably helps, necessarily, to answer the question, 'What Classes Should I Take?!' And as you may have guessed, there is obviously not a clear answer to that. I will, however, try to briefly describe my favorite classes and why they ended up on the short list. I also cannot emphasize this enough. I wish that I had spoken more with other students at the beginning of my program to find out more about certain professors and classes. Your colleagues are your lifelines. Use their expertise!!
Web Development & Information Architecture
This class taught me actual skills! From HTML and CSS to web design and interface for libraries and information centers. Linda Braun was the professor and she has years of experience with the subject matter and is currently working in the field, which I feel is so important. Not only did we learn super practical applications (that look all nice on a resume) but as the class was taught virtually she also utilized different web applications like Skype and Twitter so that she was available whenever you had a question or were about to scream because your columns weren't lining up on your site. And at the end of the class we all had something we could add to our portfolios.
Organization & Management of Corporate Libraries
This class actually took place during winter break over 5 days from 9:30-5:30. It was taught by the former Dean of my program, Jim Matarazzo. Dean Matarazzo has years of experience in special and corporate libraries, including consulting work for companies and corporations. As he had helped me with internship ideas when I first started the program I was eager to take this class from him, especially as I now find myself working in a corporate library. Throughout the week we were lucky enough to visit actual corporate/special libraries or to conference call different librarians. It was so wonderful to get to see the different types of places where information professionals are employed, from the EPA to economic consulting offices. Even better, to be able to ask questions of these librarians and to see what there day-to-day work is like was so valuable.
So what have you liked/disliked about classes in your program? If there is something you want to learn but your program doesn't offer it, are you taking steps to learn about it elsewhere?
What about your professors? Do they have experience in the field? In libraries, museums, archives, etc? Should they?
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Search warrants detail evidence against Aaron Hernandez in murder probe
Ammunition, sweatshirt, baseball cap found in Franklin apartment
Aaron Hernandez's home address was no secret after the media camped outside the massive house for days, and cameras caught him leaving, hands cuffed behind his back, when he was arrested for murder.
But police didn't know about his "flop house."
A tip from a friend of the former New England Patriots tight end led authorities to the apartment about 11 miles away. Subsequent searches turned up boxes of ammunition and clothing that police believe could help prove the murder case against Hernandez, according to court documents.
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The items were found June 26, the day Hernandez was arrested for allegedly orchestrating the death of Odin Lloyd, according to search warrant records filed in Wrentham court.
Hernandez, 23, has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys have said the evidence against him is circumstantial and he's eager to clear his name. A message requesting comment on the documents was left Wednesday with a spokesman for Hernandez's legal team.
Hernandez's two-bedroom apartment, which went for $1,200 a month, was located in a three-story complex in Franklin, a few towns over from his North Attleborough house.
Police learned about it from Hernandez's friend, Carlos Ortiz. Prosecutors say Ortiz was with Hernandez and Ernest Wallace when they drove with Lloyd to an industrial park where Lloyd was shot. Police haven't said who shot Lloyd.
Ortiz, who lives in Hernandez's hometown of Bristol, Conn, has since been charged with carrying a firearm the day of the shooting. Wallace is charged with being an accessory after the fact in the slaying
According to the documents, Bristol police interviewed Ortiz the day before Hernandez was arrested. He told them "Hernandez has another address that not many people know about," and that he thought he'd left a cellphone there.
Police initially got the search warrant to look for Ortiz's phone. But as they spotted additional items in the apartment — including a box of ammunition on an end table — they applied for additional warrants for the residence, and for a Hummer parked outside.
In a bedroom, they found a white hooded sweatshirt, according to the documents. A cranberry-colored cap, with a light blue front panel and the word "society" spelled backward, was found on a kitchen table, the documents said.
Surveillance video showed Hernandez wearing a similar sweatshirt the night Lloyd was killed on June 17, the records said.
And he was wearing "this same unique hat" in a picture shown on a local news station taken outside a nightclub June 14, the Friday before the killing, according to the documents. Prosecutors say Hernandez arranged Lloyd's shooting because he was upset at him for talking to certain people at the club.
"The white sweatshirt could be used ... to assist in linking Hernandez to the scene of the crime," wrote Trooper Michael Bates, in an affidavit in support of one of the search warrants.
"The baseball hat could help provide the whereabouts of Hernandez on the Friday night before the homicide," Bates wrote. "This night in particular is a critical aspect in the timeline of events leading up to the homicide."
The searches also turned up a magazine loaded with .45-caliber ammunition and 11 boxes of ammunition, including .22-caliber, .45-caliber and 7.62 mm rounds.
Besides the Odin killing, Hernandez has been linked to the investigation of a double homicide in Boston.
Police in Bristol said Tuesday that, based on evidence developed through the investigation of Lloyd's slaying, Boston police asked for their help in their probe of the 2012 murders. Police have since searched a house in Bristol and seized a vehicle from that address.
Boston police have declined to comment on whether Hernandez is being looked at as a possible suspect in that case.
And over the weekend, a man who is reportedly married to Hernandez's cousin was killed in a car crash in Connecticut. Thaddeus Singleton III, 33, of Bristol, was driving the car when it went airborne early Sunday and crashed into the wall of the Farmington Country Club.
Farmington police said they had no knowledge that the crash was linked to the Hernandez case.


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SAN JOSE (AP) — A California woman faces attempted murder charges after police say she tried to sneak orange juice bottles spiked with a lethal amount of rubbing alcohol inside a Starbucks.
San Jose Police arrested Ramineh Behbehanian, 50, late Monday. A customer reported seeing the woman take two bottles of orange juice from her bag and place them in an open-air refrigerated display case at a Starbucks in San Jose around 3:45 p.m., Sgt. Jason Dwyer said Tuesday.
When the customer told a store manager what he saw, Behbehanian fled. A store employee followed Behbehanian to the parking lot and jotted down her license plate number as she drove off. Other employees called 911 after noticing the bottles had a toxic smell, Dwyer said.
Firefighters on the scene tested the contents and determined that the bottles contained a "lethal quantity" of isopropyl rubbing alcohol mixed with the juice, Dwyer said.
No one drank from the bottles, said Dwyer, who praised the customer's quick actions.
"This person was heads-up enough and reported suspicious activity," Dwyer said. "I think that person saved lives by doing that."
Officers tracked down Behbehanian Monday night at her San Jose home located about five miles away from the store. She was placed into custody on suspicion of attempted murder and felony poisoning, Dwyer said.
Police are still looking for a motive.
"We don't know if she has done this before or if she had plans to do this again," Dwyer said. "We have no reason to believe that there are other coffee shops with similar dangers."
Dwyer declined to say how much rubbing alcohol was actually in the bottles, but he said it was sufficient for police to charge Behbehanian with attempted murder.
The Starbucks store in San Jose was closed after Monday's incident but reopened the next morning, Starbucks spokesman Zack Hutson said Tuesday.
"We're immensely grateful to the vigilant customer who immediately did the right thing by notifying our store partners who immediately pulled the juice from the shelves and quickly notified the authorities," Hutson said.
As a precaution, Hutson said that the Starbucks store in San Jose pulled all of its remaining juices from the open-air refrigerator and destroyed them. Other Starbucks nearby were also alerted and told to check all their juice bottles to make sure none of its seals were broken.
Behbehanian could make her first appearance in court as soon as Thursday, authorities said.


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In February I posted curator Bruce Robertson's remarks about the painting Watson and the Shark, which hangs in the first gallery of our exhibition American Stories.
The exhibition includes another great painting (and a favorite of many visitors to LACMA, as it usually hangs in our American Art galleries), Cliff Dwellers, by George Bellows. It hangs towards the end of the exhibition, with other early twentieth century works.
Recently, I asked a group of kids attending Art Camp at LACMA to tell us what they see in Cliff Dwellers. As is so often the case with kids, they descended on the painting with glee and open-minded curiosity about all the visual information contained therein.
The kids' close visual attention and the ease with which they imagined themselves in the world depicted by Bellows is a model for how to read a picture. American Stories offers gallery after gallery of paintings that invite viewers to do what these kids did so well: to look closely and investigate a different time and place through the eyes of an artist.


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The second Civil Rights Game in Memphis, Tenn., capped a weekend of events that celebrated the role baseball has played in the historical struggle for equal rights in America. The weekend served as a salute to a partnership that has stretched through most of the 20th century. More >
There were no marching bands or fireworks. The inaugural Civil Rights Game and its associated activities weren't about all that. They were about memorializing a movement in which Major League Baseball had a significant role. More >
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Report: Warming bringing big changes to forests
By JEFF BARNARD
AP Environmental Writer
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Big changes are in store for the nation's forests as global warming increases wildfires and insect infestations, and generates more frequent floods and droughts, the U.S. Department of Agriculture warns in a report released Tuesday.
The compilation of more than 1,000 scientific studies is part of the National Climate Assessment and will serve as a roadmap for managing national forests across the country in coming years.
It says the area burned by wildfires is expected to at least double over the next 25 years, and insect infestations often will affect more land per year than fires.
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Dave Cleaves, climate adviser to the chief of the U.S. Forest Service, said climate change has become the primary driver for managing national forests, because it poses a major threat to their ability to store carbon and provide clean water and wildlife habitat.
"One of the big findings of this report is we are in the process of managing multiple risks to the forest," Cleaves said during a conference call on the report. "Climate revs up those stressors and couples them. We have to do a much better job of applying climate smartness ... to how we do forestry."
The federal government has spent about $1 billion a year in recent years combating wildfires. Last year was the warmest on record in the lower 48 states and saw 9.2 million acres burned, the third-highest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's website.
Insect infestations widely blamed on warming temperatures have killed tens of millions of acres of trees.
Forest Service scientist James Vose, the report's lead author, said the research team found that past predictions about how forests will react to climate change largely have come true, increasing their confidence in the current report's predictions.
The report said the increasing temperatures will make trees grow faster in wetter areas of the East but slower in drier areas of the West. Trees will move to higher elevations and more northern latitudes, and disappear from areas on the margins of their range.
Along with more fires and insect infestations, forests will see more flooding, erosion and sediment going into streams, where it chokes fish habitat. More rain than snow will fall in the mountains, shortening ski seasons but lengthening hiking seasons. More droughts will make wildfires, insect infestations, and the spread of invasive species even worse.
The nation's forests currently store 13 percent of the carbon generated by burning fossil fuels every year, and losing trees to fire and insects makes it likely in coming years that forests in the West will start giving off carbon as they decay, the report said. It suggested that burning the trees cut during thinning operations in bioenergy plants to generate electricity would help reduce the carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels.
Beverly Law, professor of global change forest science at Oregon State University, said in an email that her research in Oregon showed that despite more fire, the amount of carbon stored in forests continues to increase.
Tara Hudiburg, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois, said there is little conclusive evidence that burning trees for bioenergy helps reduce overall carbon emissions.
Andy Stahl of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, a watchdog group, said the agency traditionally has been guided by political pressures, and he has seen no evidence that concern over climate change is now playing a role.
Cleaves said climate coordinators are stationed at every national forest across the country, every regional headquarters, and at each research station. The threat of future flooding has prompted the Olympic National Forest in Washington state to start upgrading the culverts that carry storm water runoff on logging roads.
The report did not specifically address whether logging would decrease due to more thinning projects generated by global warming concerns. But it did say that privately owned timberlands would be much quicker to react to market pressures related to global warming than the national forests.
Cleaves said thinning projects designed to make forests more resilient to a changing climate were likely to produce less timber and revenue, because they tend to leave big trees standing.
The Forest Service has struggled to pay for thinning projects that don't generate revenue. Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber has been exploring the idea of tapping state lottery funds to pay the Forest Service to plan timber sales in fire-prone areas.


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Pregnant Kim Kardashian wants to be more private
NEW YORK (AP) — As the tabloids speculated about whether Jessica Simpson is expecting again (she is) and the media zeroed in on Kate Middleton's acute morning sickness, Kim Kardashian says it was nice to be out of the media spotlight during the early stages of her pregnancy.
"I'm obviously so happy for them, but if anything I loved the privacy," the 32-year-old reality TV star said in an interview Wednesday.
That bit of privacy went out the window when Kardashian's boyfriend, Kanye West, revealed during a Dec. 30 concert in Atlantic City, N.J., that they are expecting their first child together.
Now that the word is out, Kardashian says her motherly instincts have made her pull back from being so open about her personal life.
"I think that definitely kicks in where you're like, 'OK, I have to go in protect mode,' and as ironic as it sounds, you live your life on a reality show but then when you grow up ... certain things change your life that make you want to be more private and this is definitely one of them."
The couple went public with their relationship in March.
Kardashian married NBA player Kris Humphries in August 2011 and their divorce is not finalized.
West rarely grants interviews, and the 35-year-old rapper is the ying to the Kardashian family's "out there" yang. Kim says she is somewhat influenced by West's approach.
"When you spend time with someone, you learn things from them, so I see what (his) views are in wanting to be private, so that's a choice we make together as a family just in how we're gonna raise our kid," she said. "... But my personal experience of having really open relationships on the show, I've done that, and for me I feel like I got really scrutinized when people didn't maybe understand my decisions at some point, so I feel like after that experience I've become more private more so than just like Kanye's views or anything."
Kardashian is due in July.
A new season of her reality show with her sister Kim, "Kourtney and Kim Take Miami," premieres Sunday on E! (9 p.m. EST).
Alicia Rancilio covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow her online at http://www.twitter.com/aliciar


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@banasy hope your mom is doing after getting rayped in Bombay. Was is your father or brother? Or the pundit?
It was me actually doing what Ramayana tells us to do. Hinduism at its best.
Lol. Long time no see banasy. How do? I was in rehab for sometime plus suffering from depression. But I am back now. Why is there no new blog posting on GPS?
Howdy folks.
My coprophilia fetish rocks.
I smear my own poop all over my body.
I can't be all wrong.
My daughter Barstool Palin wants me to fix her up with you.
Have her smear her poopie all over me.
Gooo Freedom Fighters!!!!
Oh really faux pas @Cuchumber and Philip as if I don't know. And that goes for you too banasy. Let us face it all of us have one....and only one thing in common. Deep inside we all admire @ Blue Saffron. Please don't tell me it ain't so.
You all are fox paa. Stop it or face my wrath.
Bill Maher Shreds Republicans For Finally Admitting That Sarah Palin Is a Crazy Person.
Bill Maher: Republicans Are "Finally Throwing Sarah Palin Under The Bus"
You see, it wasn't because she just couldn't handle being governor anymore, it was because the Left Hate Machine was mean to her, which made it too hard for her to handle being governor anymore, so she did the Right Thing and quit.
"Ted Nugent said a stupid about Sarah Palin on the Lars Larson show, because it was a day, and why wouldn't Ted Nugent take any opportunity to say a stupid about Sarah Palin? She is his HERO, you guys, and even more than that, she is apparently what the Founding Fathers were prophesying all along back when they wrote the Bible. Ted explained to Lars that Palin "is the perfect example of what our Founding Fathers envisioned for an experiment in self-government."
Note that he didn't say that it was a GOOD experiment, or the kind of experiment that would actually go well, just an experiment, the kind that the Founding Fathers liked. Apparently they were into that whole "let's see if we can make things explode" type thing, because you know, Benjamin Franklin and his science-y ways. "
Wonkette rocks.
Yes it does !!
Not only does Sarah Palin waste valuable space. She wastes oxygen too.
An extreme case of Palinitis. Take two Xanax and call me in the morning.
" John McCain's lack of enthusiasm for a Palin candidacy was obvious. Sen. McCain will always be saddled with the legacy of unleashing the Palin plague on our body politic. McCain should never be forgiven for his reckless lack of judgement in appointing a person who not fit to be the vice president. McCain should be asked in every interview he ever gives until the day he dies why he chose Palin. He has never been held accountable for his actions in 2008. "
He chose her because she is a female of the species. Duh. To try and garner more votes.
Dude you don't know squat about anything you babble about. Stfu.
Stupid i diots making nonsense comments. No wonder they shut this down.
And you are stupid too.
Shut up and f ukk off stupid i diot.
"And you are stupid too." Neener neener poopyhead. Way to burn someone. LOL
You too a zz whole. Git lost. S kunk.
How quickly they forget.
Spell much? Talk with a stutter? LOL "Git" "I diot" "S kunk" St st st STUTTER! LOL
Those aren't little green men making "UFOs" and flying around in them you dummies.
No. It's Heisenberg and a pack of Dobermans, all hooked on Bayer aspirin.
Stop and drop the lysergic acid diethylamide, LOL
Omg you Ufologists are freaking stupid. Tin foil hat brigade straight out of Idiocracy USA.
Who dafuq brought up UFO's?!?? LOL put the crack pipe down son
Hey Joey.
Nobody was talking about anything so I thought I would make fun of any idiots that might come along. Dummies thinking "UFOs" aren't being manufactured in the 60 trillion dollars worth of "Area 51s" built during the phony "Cold War".
Stick around and I will make fun of you dummies that think concentration camps were for Jews. And that over 850 such forced labor camps have not been built in N. America since 9/11 and are not being filled right now.
You make fun of the tin foil hat brigade when your Brigadier General LOL
3000th comment is MINE. HE HE
3000 baby yeah!
Who cares. Freak. You hold that close to your heart while I hold my wife LOL
I had the 1000th post on this last blog. @banasy stole my 2000 one. But I got 3K. Ha ha
How does having a conversation with you suddenly turn into stealing anything from you, Philip?
I had no idea there was a competition going on, so...congrats? Shrug.
Plastic blow up is not wife though Indians legally wed pillows now.
I'm too dumb to hit the reply button LOL
It was a joke Donna. A real life made up one. Not a bobsnot copy/paste and so you did not recognize.
So, when you called me a bitch for inadvertently being the 2000th post, that was in jest, too? Because I highly doubt that it was.
Bobcat's jokes are immediately recognizable as such. Perhaps you should work on your delivery?
So Hitler really was made fat and stupid just as Americans are being made today. Huh. Whoulddathunk?
Howdy folks.
I have a coprophilia fetish. Please do smear poop all over my body.
Freedom Fighters eat caca.
Caca and caca and caca
And caca and caca and caca and caca
Mmmmm I just love hot curry good SH IT.
Love it all.
Caca and caca and caca and caca and caca
Caca and caca and caca and caca and caca and caca
I can't be all wrong
Warm poop makes great smoothie.
Touch it all slowly.
I'm loving it
Caca and caca and caca and caca
Caca and caca and caca and caca and caca and
Caca and caca and caca and caca and caca
And caca and caca and caca and caca and caca
Love it all over my body.
Love it!!!!!!
I insert my hand up my girlfriend's asss. Then I take out the hot SH IT.
We love it.
Caca and caca and caca and caca and caca and
And caca and caca and caca and caca and caca and caca
And caca and caca and caca and caca and caca and
And caca and caca and caca and caca and caca
I can't be all wrong
I want it all.
Yes. Hitler continued to decline and ended up with a poop fetish. Anymore questions?


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Remains of Conn. gunman claimed for burial
The body of the man who killed 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school has been claimed for burial.
Connecticut Medical Examiner Wayne H. Carver II tells the Hartford Courant that the remains of Adam Lanza were claimed several days ago by someone who wanted to remain anonymous.
A spokeswoman at Carver's office told The Associated Press she could not release details about the status of Lanza's remains.
The 20-year-old Lanza killed 20 first-graders and six educators at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14. He also killed his mother in their Newtown home before going on the rampage and then committing suicide.
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After nearly fifteen years I still contemplate those two dreadful swatches of winter and spring with undiminished horror. One was either sleeping, eating, prepping for a test or taking a test; and both sleeping and eating were curtailed in order to leave more time for prepping.
Once, halfway through the ordeal, a friend persuaded me to unwind by leaving campus and heading into Boston to spend the afternoon at the Museum of Fine Arts. Unfortunately, I was an art history major. Instead of losing my cares for a couple of hours in the loveliness, after fifteen minutes I had a panic attack in front of a Renoir and fled back to my books.
October has felt a bit like that. I was either traveling to something or from something; or packing something; or shipping something; or drawing something; or photographing something; or writing something; or signing something; or writing about traveling or packing or shipping or drawing or writing or signing.
Notice, among all those -ings, the absence of knitting.
Not that there wasn't any. It's just all been small and simple, and some of it (like the patterns for the next column in Knitty) I can't show you in advance or Amy Singer will get all huffy.
But I am heartily sick of not blogging about knitting. Today, although a gaggle of -ings has clustered around my ankles to scream for attention, I'm shutting them all in the bathroom so I can show you the latest sweater for Abigail.
The knitting itself is as plain as plain gets: Baby Pullover #214 from always-reliable Knitting Pure and Simple. Top-down, raglan sleeves, highly recommended without reservations. My only changes were to work a seed stitch collar and cuffs, instead of rolled stockinette.
The yarn, Lorna's Laces Shepherd Worsted in "Aslan," was pretty all by itself. But when the sweater was finished I wasn't happy with it. Handsome, sure. But dull. No dash. No surprise. A dish of ice cream with no cherry on top. Rock without roll. Mary-Kate without Ashley.
During my infrequent, unoccupied moments at home I'd pick it up and turn it over and squint at it, and then throw it back into the workbasket. I briefly considered slicing the front to make a cardigan with Fun Buttons, but I've had no time to shop around for Fun Buttons.
Then I opened one of the doors on the stash cupboard to hunt for something and three or four small balls of leftover Dream in Color from Abigail's Tulip Jacket fell out. The memory of a bird I'd seen pecking at a bush on Fremont Street knocked up against the memory of a embroidering the Baby Kimono, and a Eureka Moment ensued. (Passers-by in the street heard only a soft popping sound, but for me it was a great relief.)
I consulted briefly with my embroidery books, made a few preliminary sketches, and turned the pullover into "Bird and Berry."
One sleeve, the back, and the front all have the same sort of vine growing from the bottom up. It's just a feathered chain stitch with two-stitch "berries" sprouting at random.
On the front, one of the vines has a little brown bird perched on top, with a berry in its beak.
If you haven't tried embroidering on a piece of knitting, I highly recommend it. I liken it to working cables. For example:
- a well-chosen motif can add immensely to the success of a project;
- it's much simpler to do than it looks, given a little study and practice, and;
- to the uninitiated, it looks like magic, and you are not required to disillusion them.
Little Book News
The hometown launch for It Itches happened on Sunday at Arcadia Knitting an oh, what a merry crowd. It was a charge to stand in the same spot where'd I'd seen Debbie Stoller and Stephanie Pearl-McPhee talk about their work, and read aloud from mine. I wanted to hug everybody who took the time to come say hello. I think I probably did hug about three-quarters of you. I'm turning into the Leo Buscaglia of knitting.
Word is that the book is hitting the store shelves and (finally) landing in the mailboxes of those who placed pre-orders back when it was nothing but a pile of crumpled, ink-stained paper with a terrified cartoonist in the middle.
I spotted it in the wild for the first time at the Borders on State Street, and because I am a shameless, sentimental geek I took a picture. Sue me.
Holy crap. Right there next to Louisa Harding. And me, just a simple girl from Kansas with a pair of tap shoes and a dream.
Meanwhile, several folks have been kind enough to write about it, including The Knitting Scholar, who gave me the royal treatment–an interview and a review. I've also chatted about it on "Ready, Set, Knit," the WEBS Podcast; and the KnitPicks Podcast.
Shop News
The Guys with Yarn 2009 Calendar is back in the Etsy shop, and a new batch of prints and gift enclosure cards will follow on Monday. The 2008 tree ornament and its ancestors are still available in the Cafe Press shop, where I'm hoping to launch new variations on the 1,000 Knitters bags and shirts this week.


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May 19th, 2011
Are you willing to negotiate monogamy?
Ian Kerner, a sexuality counselor and New York Times best-selling author, blogs about sex on Thursdays on The Chart. Read more from him at his website, GoodInBed.
When you take your marriage vows, you're pretty much making the commitment to never have sex with anyone else ever again. Wow - just writing that is scary.
With the demise of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver's 25-year marriage making headlines, it's hard not to wonder if long-term monogamy is possible or even practical.
As a sex therapist, not a day goes by that I don't see people who are stuck, feeling as if they have to give up on their marriage, or give up on sex - or cheat. My patients have taught me that sex - or a lack of it - is one of the major contributors to marital strife between longtime couples.
Such an approach may seem to fly in the face of the concept of marriage - I don't blame you for raising your eyebrows or shaking your head at the suggestion. But hear me out.
We live in an age when we're surrounded by countless arguments (or maybe just excuses) against monogamy: Men have a biological imperative to spread their seed and have always cheated ("boys will be boys"); humans are wired for serial monogamy, not one lifelong relationship; long-term relationships beget boredom; people are living longer and longer but half of all marriages fail… Whew.
When you consider what we're up against, it may not be such a bad idea to give negotiated monogamy a chance before we dismiss it outright as a violation of the sanctity of marriage.
In my own practice, I often raise the option of negotiated monogamy with couples who have worked their way into permanently sexless marriages, or who feel starved for sex - but not with each other. The very concept of negotiated monogamy is a provocative and useful way for these couples to talk about sex and marriage, even if they choose not to practice it.
As with most issues, it's better to talk about something and understand each other's boundaries than to guess or cheat or commit to life of silent desperation. And you know what? It turns out that once couples start talking about what they would or wouldn't allow - strippers, lap dances, flirty friendships, free passes, oral sex with other people, swinging, open relationships - they often tend to get turned on and end up going home and having sex with each other.
After all, the brain is the biggest of sex organ and, as I discussed in last week's column about fantasies, even just talking about sex can get people interested in actually having sex.
So remember: Taking a marriage vow does not mean taking a vow of silence. If anything, being married should give you a level of trust where you feel like you can talk about anything. And if you actually want to try negotiated monogamy and your partner doesn't (or vice versa)? Well, at least you're having an adult conversation instead of acting like children - or former governors.
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TNB: Mayhem – Crawling, Balling & Brawling on the Evere$t Soap Opera
Just as basketball has March Madness, climbers have May on Everest, AKA Mayhem. Like a huge and dangerous soap-opera set, each May the flanks of Everest are overrun with humanity engaging in every sin from rampant fornication to shameless acquisitiveness.
Tomorrow is May 1, the official beginning of Evere$t $ummit
$ea$on. Just as basketball has March Madness, climbers have May on Everest, AKA Mayhem. Like a huge and dangerous soap-opera set, each May the flanks
of Everest are overrun with humanity engaging in every sin from rampant fornication to shameless acquisitiveness. The on-site hospital, sushi nights
and movie screens are all fueled by an often-altruistic desire to climb to the highest point on Earth for fill-in-the-blank. Oh, and the show is also
made possible by $$,$$$ per client, generators and hundreds of low-paid brown guys with heavily muscled legs.
Wake up, people, Evere$t has been climbed more than 3,000 times! Why don't you spread the love around? Go climb one of the other, harder, 362 peaks open
for mountaineering in the region. The Sherpas would love to carry your stuff up to any number of other scenic camps and dig latrines, cook your food,
stomp out the trail to the summit, fix your rope and haul you to the top and back down, and then carry your trash out.
I write about how un-cool Everest is every year and every year people comment on how wrong I've got it and how climbing Everest is actually pretty darn cool. They say that it's not a shitshow, but some kind of vision quest—or at least a deeply
satisfying experience. And as far as the pollution and trash, well there's an Everest culture and community that requires that energy and packaging,
plus the Sherpas make X-percentage of their yearly income while hauling that trash and waste through the deadly Khumbu Icefall and therefore climbing
Everest actually helps them out. And to that I say, "Bullshit." The Sherpa would probably be better off without the yearly influx of mostly affluent,
type-A gringos. The history of cultural contact with the West is almost always a tale of exploitation and cultural assimilation where rich ethnic traditions
are replaced by addiction and consumerism.
Last year a Chinese guy who was trying to poach the mountain without a permit got his ass beat by some Tibetan guides.
people attack my yearly Evere$t screed with the remark: You haven't been there, so shut up. And to that I say, "Touché." You're right, my ignorance
must be clouding my understanding because, as an uninvited Everest interloper, somebody who has never been there done that, just a regular average
climber who has followed the Everest news for the last 20 some-odd years—to me that mountain looks all F'ed up. People dying right and left,
police arresting folks for having a Tibetan flag. Last year a Chinese guy who was trying to poach the mountain without a permit got his ass beat by
some Tibetan guides. And then there's the ant lines of people slowly ascending fixed ropes, doping, cell phones, helicopters, human remains, neophytes
who don't know how to work their gear sitting in the snow freezing their faces off until someone rescues them, and when nobody comes they just die.
To an ignorant outsider like me it all seems pathetic.
What would it take to make Everest cool again? For me it would take an unsupported, no-02 sucking, new route. Ironically, that's exactly what badass alpinists
Ueli Steck, Simone Moro and Jonathan Griffith were preparing for last Friday when they traversed (unroped) across the rope of a team of high-altitude
Sherpas to reach their tent at Camp 3 on the Lhotse face. According to a press release that Griffith sent me yesterday, he passed under the leader
first. Ueli Steck followed and as he stepped over the rope, the Sherpa leader looked down and began shouting and banging the ice with his axe. He then
fixed his line and, according to Griffith, rappelled right onto Steck. When Steck put his hands up to fend off the Sherpa, the man started screaming,
"Why you touch me?!" and began violently striking the ice with his axe and accusing the climbers of knocking ice on them. Steck attempted to appease
the leader by offering to fix some rope but according to the report this seemed to make matters worse. When Moro arrived, the leader turned on him
and threateningly brandished his ice axe. The aggression surprised Moro and he swore. After that, the leader became incensed and ordered his entire
team of 17 Sherpas down the mountain and back to Camp 2.
Trying to "smooth things over" Steck went on and fixed a further 850-feet of rope, all the way to Camp 3. Then things got weird.
When the trio arrived back at Camp 2 about 100 Sherpas rushed in and punched and kicked the climbers and pelted them with rocks. Steck's face was reportedly
badly cut. Luckily, a small group of guides and clients pushed in and "acted as a buffer between the out of control mob and the climbers."
According to Griffith, one Sherpa told the climbers that "by that night one of them would be dead, and the other two they would see to later."
The altercation was over in 50 minutes during which the climbers escaped and hid separately. They regrouped after the shouting stopped and were informed,
"that if they weren't gone in an hour they would all be killed." So they packed some essentials and climbed down through heavily crevassed terrain
unroped, feeling that "given the current situation this was the safest place to be."
Steck, Moro and Griffith admit they don't fully understand why the Sherpas attacked them. They claim to have
not disturbed the work or even touched the fixed rope, and both Griffith and Moro have stated that it's "highly unlikely" that they knocked ice on
the Sherpas since they were climbing 150 feet to the side of them. But they speculate that the lead Sherpa's pride was hurt by the professional climbers
who were blazing past him unroped. Furthermore, I'll bet the Sherpas didn't like watching Steck do their job for them as he easily strung rope to Camp
3. But again, that's just speculation.
I contacted Luis Benitez, who summitted Everest six times as a guide for major outfitters and asked specifically about why he thought the Sherpas went
berserk. He wrote:
It brings up the ever-present question on Everest: When will leadership in ethics and values play a greater part in not only the goal of summitting, but the road to get there. I keep reading these reports man, this is nuts. Does no one remember Henry Todd [head of a guiding company] being banned from Nepal for three years for violence only to return to operate as usual? How can we not be condemned to repeat history if we do not learn from it? When western media (which mostly knows nothing of Everest) is calling for limits on crowds and team size, who among the guiding community will rise to the challenge? Guiding companies go about their business even when, during the torch relay for the China Olympics, most had satellite phones confiscated and some were kicked off the hill for having Tibetan flags and Nepali soldiers with guns were at Camp 2 halting climbers from passing. The Nepalese government paid attention when China asked them to, but refused to pay attention to the rights-abuses on the mountain. Why? Money. Everest is a money mint for the government and the country.
I read something interesting tonight that Sherpa animosity could be about Westerners getting most of the credit and funds. It's true. For example, my friend Lhakpa Rita a senior guide for Alpine Ascents, first Sherpa to do the Seven Summits, got barely a nod from the media. There are great org's like the Khumbu Climbing School that are trying to even the odds and Sherpas for many teams like IMG work directly with the western clients, yet only when the western guides are the assistants and the Sherpas are the lead guides will we really, as a climbing community, have put our money where our mouth is. Furthermore, the government will never regulate the amount of climbers on the hill. It is up to the guiding industry to stand up and say something like "we will go every other year" or every third year and have a cap on the amount of clients. The opportunity to do something different is there, it will just take a company that's brave enough to say "enough is enough."
Regardless of why the Sherpas attacked [read Sherpas' viewpoint here],
I'm once again saddened by the state of "climbing" on Everest. In fact, it's becoming apparent even to the "insiders" that the highest peak in the
world is not a place for climbers at all. The only real team on the mountain this year, Moro, Steck and Griffith, are appalled, hurt and scared, and
according to Griffith have abandoned their attempt to do something significant on this teeming pile of human ego. As Griffith wrote today in an interview
on ukclimbing.com: "As a final comment: A very influential character (sorry no names right now) has asked the Ministry of Tourism to have written on
every permit that climbers are not allowed to climb before the fixing team. If this happens it means the only way you can climb Everest is by climbing
in a nice big track and on fixed lines with tons of people. It is insane, but it shows the attitude towards this mountain."
As usual, the Evere$t season has me buffaloed and it's not even Mayhem yet. It's like a good TV show, you never can guess what will happen in the next
episode. Will somebody shit in the hood of his snowsuit? Sleep with another man's wife? Start a fight? Or die? Probably. Stay tuned.


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Gunmen kill 5 female teachers in Pakistan
- No one has taken responsibility for the shootings
- A young activist was wounded in the same area in October
- Islamic militants often target women and girls trying to get an education or female teachers
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen in northwest Pakistan killed five teachers and two aid workers from a non-governmental organization Tuesday as they were driving home from work. The group's director said they may have been targeted for their anti-polio work.
Militants in the past have accused health workers of acting as spies for the U.S., alleging the vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile. Last month, nine people working on an anti-polio vaccination campaign were shot and killed. Four of those shootings were in the northwest where Tuesday's attack took place.
The attack was another reminder of the risks to women educators and aid workers from Islamic militants who oppose their work. It was in the same conservative province where militants shot and seriously wounded 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai, an outspoken young activist for girls' education, in October.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest shootings.
In a separate attack in the southern city of Karachi, also likely to have been carried out by militants, four people were killed and dozens injured when a bomb went off just as a large political rally was dispersing.
The teachers and aid workers in the northwest were killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on their way home from a community center where they worked at a medical clinic and primary school.
The director of the group targeted Tuesday said he suspected that the workers were attacked because the non-governmental organization has been active in vaccination campaigns designed to wipe out polio.
Javed Akhtar, from Support With Working Solutions, said the clinic where the aid workers worked had helped vaccinate children, and many of the NGO's staff had taken part in vaccination campaigns.
That attack was in an area where Islamic militants often target women and girls trying to get an education or female teachers.
Militants in the province have blown up schools and killed female educators. They have also kidnapped and killed aid workers, viewing them as promoting a foreign agenda.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, formerly called the Northwest Frontier province, borders the tribal areas of Pakistan along the frontier with Afghanistan to the west. Militant groups such as the Taliban have used the tribal areas as a stronghold from which to wage war both in Afghanistan and against the Pakistani government. Often that violence has spilled over into the mostly Pashtun province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In 2007, the Taliban led by Maulana Fazlullah took over the scenic Swat Valley, marking the height of their strength there. The Pakistani military later pushed the militant group from the valley but the Taliban has repeatedly tried to reassert itself.
The teachers were killed along with two health workers, one man and one woman. Their driver was wounded. They were on their way home from a community center in the town of Swabi where they were working at a primary school for girls and adjoining medical center.
The injured driver told investigators that the gunmen stopped the vehicle and removed a boy — the son of one of the women — before indiscriminately opening fire, said police officer Fazal Malik.
Swabi police chief Abdur Rasheed said most of the women killed were between the ages of 20 and 22. He said four gunmen who used two motorcycles fled the scene and have not been apprehended.
The gunmen on motorcycles opened fire with automatic weapons, said Akhtar. The NGO conducts programs in the education and health sectors and runs the community center in Swabi, he said. The group has been active in the city since 1992, and started the Ujala Community Welfare Center in 2010, he added. Ujala means "light" in Urdu.
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Aid groups such as Support With Working Solutions often provide a vital role in many areas of Pakistan where the government has been unable to provide services such as medical clinics or schools. In some areas like the northwest, they have had to work to overcome community fears that they are promoting a foreign agenda at odds with local traditions and values.
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Murad Khan said his daughter was studying at the primary school, which provided free books and uniforms to students. He said many people in the area are now worried that the school and clinic will close.
"This school is like a gift for all of us, the poor people of the village," he said. "People in our area are sad."
The NGO director said he has directed staff at all projects to stop working for the time being until security measures are reviewed but vowed that they would resume their work soon.
He said that the NGO had not received any threats before the attack.
In Karachi, senior police officer Asif Ejaz Shaikh said the bomb that killed four was planted in a motorcycle parked amid a crowd of buses for political workers returning from the rally held by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. The MQM is the dominant political party in Karachi.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
The provincial health minister Dr. Saghir Ahmed said four people were killed and 41 injured.


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I haven't seen Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity yet, but I want to. The movie will enter general release here in the US on October 4. It stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as two astronauts having what looks to be a really, really bad day in space. Trailers for the movie show them flying around in their space suits, yelling and crying and dodging debris from exploding satellites and space ships and space stations, all lit by a beautifully rendered and untouchably distant Earth in the background.
The director and the studio have taken great pains to recreate the experience of operating in microgravity as accurately as possible. Cuarón consulted with NASA astronauts on the particulars of moving in microgravity, and, according to the NY Daily News, the movie's production designers studied thousands of NASA photographs in order to make their vision of space look authentic.
When asked how far that commitment to verisimilitude stretched, though, Cuarón said that while the movie strives for accuracy, "it would be disingenuous to say we did it 100 percent, because this is a movie, and we needed to take certain liberties."
There was a five-minute "extended trailer" for the movie published last month. It certainly had some gripping visuals, but the longer it went on, the deeper my frown became. I don't claim to be an expert, but the stuff that George Clooney and Sandra Bullock were doing on the screen just didn't look right. Certainly cool, but not right.
But this is Ars, and on certain things, we have the hook up. I may not be the expert, but I knew someone who was, and I was going to ask for his official opinion on that extended trailer.
The man who makes the plan
The last time I talked with Zeb Scoville was at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab, the enormous indoor pool where NASA trains its astronauts on how to spacewalk—or, more properly, how to function during extravehicular activity, or EVA. Scoville is the EVA task group lead at the NBL, and he is responsible for managing the teams that figure out how EVAs work. If an EVA's goal is to replace a part outside the space station, for example, Scoville figures out exactly what the astronauts need to do to replace the part, including the physical movements they need to make. His team is made up of actual NASA flight controllers—during training at the pool, they run the simulations, and during the actual missions, they're manning the consoles in Mission Control.
If anyone could shed some light on the accuracy or inaccuracy of Clooney and Bullock's space antics, I figured Scoville would be the man. After a quick call to NASA's press office to arrange some time to talk, we sat down together to watch our way through the trailer.
Problem: debris
The trailer kicks off with an EVA in progress, and a radio-distorted voice is heard calling for an abort. It becomes clear that the message is directed at some astronauts working on something outside their spacecraft. It looks like they're repairing the Hubble Space Telescope, though it might be something else—for instance, some KEYHOLE reconnaissance satellites are said to share the Hubble's external form factor. Whatever it is, the astronauts are outside with big debris incoming, which means they're in trouble.
Right away, the sheer size of the debris gave us pause. NASA relies on US Strategic Command's big radars to keep constant radar watch on its vehicles, and the chunks shown on-screen are far larger than the minimum size that USSTRATCOM would notice. "Part of the procedure for getting ready for an EVA would include checking for debris like this, wouldn't it?" I asked.
"Right—we have a process that's known as a 'certification of EVA readiness,'" answered Scoville. "We have the EVA community come together, and they'll present a lot of the technical analysis, and we give our community-wide consensus for a 'go' for the EVA." Scoville explained that this analysis includes an assessment of the risk of encountering orbital debris during the EVA. Space isn't empty, especially at the International Space Station's low altitude, and there's always the chance that there'll be a "conjunction," NASA-speak for a potential collision between debris and a vehicle or astronaut. Debris risk is assessed in terms of the potential damage—whether the expected amount of debris could cause a suit leak small enough to survive (which would terminate the mission), or whether it could cause loss of a spacecraft or even astronaut lives.
"The debris they have there is orders of magnitude larger than what you need to create a very catastrophic puncture in a space suit. For comparison, if you have up to about an eighth inch of a hole in an EMU"—that's Extravehicular Mobility Unit, NASA's acronym for a spacesuit—"it has emergency oxygen systems which can feed that leak and maintain pressure for about 30 minutes to get you back inside the airlock and repress the airlock. Above about an eighth of an inch, and it can't maintain pressure."
"Is there a procedure for what to do if that happens?" I asked. "Like, you stick your finger in the hole or try to squeeze the leak closed?"
Scoville responded in the negative because of the spacesuit's many-layered structure. "On the inside, you have the bladder layer, that actually maintains the pressure of the suit. Beyond that there's the restraint layer, and then you have a neoprene layer, and beyond that the insulation mylar layers for heat rejection, with layers of scrim in between for separation, then the white Ortho-Fabric on the outside. No matter how much you squeeze or push on the outer layer, you're not getting to the inner layer where the bladder is. You wouldn't be able to seal that with a gloved hand with 4.3 pounds of pressure trying to get out of the suit."
Although an EVA wouldn't be allowed to happen under such conditions, Scoville speaks up here and lets me know that he's actually Googled a plot summary of the movie in preparation for our talk. The debris in Gravity actually comes from an event that occurs after the EVA has started. Under such circumstances, the EVA would indeed be terminated, just as is depicted in the trailer. I stow my nerd rage, and we continue.
Problem: Clooney's jetpack
After the debris zips past, intrepid astronaut George "The Chin" Clooney comes in frame, sporting a very cool space jetpack. There's a problem with that backpack, though—nothing like it exists in NASA's active inventory anymore. To me, it looks like Clooney's character is supposed to be wearing a Manned Maneuvering Unit or MMU, a piece of equipment developed for shuttle astronauts to use while repairing satellites. The MMUs worked great, but they weren't used very much, and NASA discontinued flying them in the 1990s. They weren't re-introduced for use on the International Space Station because they're too large and bulky.
I point this out to Scoville. "Yeah," he replied. "It looks not quite like a MMU, but it's something close to it. Those things, the manned maneuvering units, are no longer used. In some of those shots, it looks like a cross between a MMU and a thing we call SAFER, which stands for 'Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue,' which is similar to a MMU—except it doesn't have the same level of redundancy, it's not as large, the joystick is a little different, and it doesn't hold as much gas."
The SAFER backpacks are for astronauts working around the International Space Station, and as the acronym suggests, they're intended to be used in case an astronaut accidentally drifts away from the station. Scoville explains that the little safety jetpack has 24 thrusters powered by the venting of compressed nitrogen gas, and it can accelerate an astronaut up to about 10 feet per second. The SAFER also has a smart gyro-based stabilization system that will automatically stop an astronaut from tumbling. However, these packs aren't intended to be used as the primary means for flitting about outside. The limited amount of delta-v the backpacks can impart is more than enough to stop a drifting astronaut, but the amount of propellant is very limited.
SAFER backpacks weren't used on shuttle missions, either: "On shuttle missions, when they weren't docked to station, they didn't need this—they could just fly the shuttle after them to pick them up if they fell off." This provides one explanation for why Clooney's character is wearing a jetpack and Bullock's character isn't—when we meet her in a moment, she's strapped into the foot restraints at the end of the space shuttle's remote manipulator arm, busily working away at repairing the telescope.


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Parents: Janet and Bill Skurski
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High school sports you play (w/position): Basketball (Guard)
Organizations you're involved in (Both in and outside of school): Varsity H Club; Keeping Illinois Beautiful.
Personal highlight (Sports or not): Hitting a game-winning 3-point shot.
Hobbies: Listening to music, hanging out with friends, shopping.
Favorite movie: Identity Thief (2013)
Favorite TV show: Whale Wars
Favorite musician or group(s): Luke Bryan
Favorite food: Anything sweet.
Your inspiration: My parents because they pushing to get better and are always behind me in whatever I do.
Superstitions: Before any basketball game or practice I always put my left shoe on before my right.
What song would like playing when you step onto the field/court: "Headband" by B.o.B
Something people would be surprised to know about you: That I'm adopted.
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Your worst attribute: I get down on myself easily.
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Entanglement in commercial fishing gear and collisions with ships off the East Coast are considered the greatest threats to the right whale's survival. Experts estimate only about 450 of the large whales remain. Each winter they migrate to the warmer waters off Georgia and Florida to give birth to their calves.
It was the first time since 2011 that a right whale snared in fishing gear has been spotted offshore in the Southeast, said Clay Georgia, a marine mammal biologist for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. He was part of the team that got close enough to the 30-foot whale to sever the three-quarters-inch fishing line using a grappling hook equipped with cutting blades.
"We feel like what we did gives the whale a fighting chance to shed the remainder of the rope on its own," said George, who estimated the whale is still dragging about 20 feet of the rope woven with lead weights. "The real take-home message here is we can't just go out and save and fix every whale that shows up entangled. In some cases it's just completely impossible to disentangle that whale."
The entangled whale spotted this week was actually a 4-year-old male, which George said isn't surprising despite a misconception that only pregnant females and their babies migrate south at wintertime.
A crew doing aerial surveys for the Navy offshore near Jacksonville, Fla., spotted the whale dragging fishing line behind it Sunday. Florida officials responding by boat managed to cut away some of the rope and attach a tracking buoy to the end.
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A patient who faced legal threats after writing a negative review about his dentist has cleared a key legal hurdle, as a New York court rejected the dentist's "ridiculous" arguments for dismissing the lawsuit.
We've written before about a controversial copyright assignment agreement created by a group called Medical Justice. The agreement asks patients to grant their doctor or dentist copyright in any reviews they might write.
One of those patients, Robert Lee, had a billing dispute with his dentist Stacy Makhnevich. Frustrated, he vented his complaints on review sites such as Yelp. Makhnevich threatened to sue him for copyright infringement and other offenses, citing the copyright assignment in the Medical Justice agreement. Her lawyer warned Lee that he could be on the hook for $100,000 worth of damages.
But Lee wasn't intimidated. He got himself a lawyer and sued Makhnevich in 2011. He sought a declaration from the court that the agreement was invalid and that he had a right to publish his reviews. The media attention over the case prompted Medical Justice to "retire" the agreement in 2011.
Makhnevich asked Judge Paul Crotty to dismiss the case. She argued that since she had not actually filed a lawsuit, there was no active controversy for the courts to adjudicate. But Judge Crotty wrote that "a brief review of Defendants' conduct in response to Lee's exercise of basic rights shows how ridiculous their arguments are." He notes that Makhnevich's lawyer included a copy of the complaint he was threatening to file in court if Lee didn't take down his reviews. The lawyer also threatened to send Lee to collections if he didn't pay Makhnevich the money she claimed he owed.
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Well The third episode comes with another problem that we as a nation face and it is such a menace, which is faced yet again by everyone, each family faces it no matter what , if they are parents to a Boy or a girl.. this ritual comes to the fore always ..
But I loved the message in the End given by Mr. Amir khan to the men of the nation , What sort of men are we .. Is this what being a MAN is begging for something from someone else , that does not make us men it makes us beggars.
Another point that came out of the episode and which I keep yacking and harping about is again A women being an enemy of a woman, The mother in law asking this or that , In the first case that was shown The mother-in-law knew how his son was treating the daughter in law , yet she did not say anything Rather she was calling up the Girls father to give more, I mean WHY.. Did she go through the same when she got married and came to the family..
Usually when we go through a bad time, or a bad scenario we ( I say we as in normal people), try to warn others not to do the same mistake, If there is a road where we were robbed , we tell everyone oh don't go on that road , this might happen or that might happen.. We have a problem and go to a person who takes some money to help us , We generally tend to tell people either good about this person who has helped us or bad , as they took money.. The point that I am trying to make is WE speak of the situation .. SO WHY DOES A MOTHER-IN-LAW who has gone through the same DOWRY problem in the Family NOT speak out to save another person from the same humiliation. OR is that they think ooooh Revenge TIME.. now its her chance to get back , Since she can't do anything to her husband or the family , she does the next best thing , to humiliate the new girl who is brought into the family.
I can understand people saying men are bad, society is bad , men do this , men have made life bad for women , Men are the root cause of all problems in one way or the other, But what about the Mother-in-law who is a woman.. Sometimes when I think its just makes me mad, We all say MOTHER is next to god, I say it all the time THEN how come the same mother becomes a devil for the newly married girl who has come in the family.
Today I had a problem with the episode and I Found something not so right, WHY WERE THE FACES OF THE MAN HIDDEN... I mean they are showing the faces of the ladies who have gone through hell, but hidden the face of the bridegroom, I think ,I Wish and HOPED that the Faces of these MEN should be splashed everywhere, The photo shown was that of the wedding day THEN why was the man's face covered.
I think the only way to get rid of the menace of dowry is to NAME and SHAME the boy's family, They should be splashed everywhere on big hoardings, I am sure it the RIGHT OF THE WOMAN TO SHOW THE FACE OF HER HUSBAND.. I mean what sort of human being can leave his wife for four days alone with food, I so want to have seen that man's face and I would also want to know what company does he work for , so his colleagues and office knows what sort of man they have appointed. I Personally would have written to that AMERICAN FIRM about this person , and I am sure if it was a foreign company they would have broken their ties with the indian company to get away from bad publicity or asked the man to leave .. WHICH IS WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN .. I bet that man has probably got married all over again and got another installment of dowry ..
I Think the show should show the pictures, fine they dont want to say anything against the man , I agree but that faces should be shown. People should see the faces of EVIL, so at least someone else also is not taken for a ride. Moreover the relatives , the neighbours, the friends or anyone who know that family can also see what sort of people they mingle with because I am sure That man and his family have probably made all those believe how bad the girl was, nothing wrong was done by the boy and his family.
As Mr. Balwant singh ramoowalia said Punjabi's have this habit of wanting to go abroad , and would do anything to make it happen, to the level that they can give away their daughters and PAY for putting them into hell, 30000 girls are in that hell , maybe more who have not reported. I remember writing a post when something like this happened marriage has becoming business, I have so many stories to tell. The lure of coming abroad is making people do EVIL things, they are finding new ways to come abroad.
I think time has come where Parents of a girl need to start turning the tables, Any boy who wants to marry their daughter will have to give dowry to them, Pre nuptial agreements need to be made on the day of the wedding.
I loved the way some societies have taken upon themselves to make a change, and the north-eastern states where dowry is read about only in books.
I also think nowadays the idea of religious marriage is gone , I mean the boy and the girl both take Vows in front of God , with all their heart , yet they break it so in my eyes that idea is lost, it should probably be registered weddings, cheap and easy go to court and get married NO need of spending lakhs on parties etc , I mean whats the use of that, one can spend so much money on that and yet you can always find someone who is not happy for some reason.
Parents of a girl are under constant pressure I know that for fact, I could see -hear ,my parents talk , when I came over to uk, got a job, WE would discuss this, My sis had to be married, preparations had to be started as she was nearing completing her education. Luckily for us the boy's side never asked for anything and my sister is happily married BUT there was this unspoken deal where she had to be given, I remember we had to go for the shagun to the boy's side, as we reached, I could see my dad a bit worried , Went up to him asking what was the problem and his words were "Oh yaar, we forgot to put the Television in the car", and I was like WHAT.. so what But the look on his face and then obviously my mum came to know ..
It was that worried look, although the boy's side never asked and I am sure they would not have said anything but just to see the worried look on my parents made my heart-break, I had to send one of my friends to go home to pick the damn TV, I did not know it was for my sis for I had that new tv in my room and I had been using it.
The reason I mentioned this little episode is its SAD to see parents in so much pressure if not from the boy's side , then it's from the Society, what will they say Mann sahib be apne beti de viyah ch tv nahin ditta (Mr. Mann did not give a tv on his daughter's wedding).. I MEAN what the hell now that is a sad thought, the day the rituals when it is supposed to be happy time , both families are supposed to be feasting the occasion having fun , there is this on the back of the mind , The worried looks.
I wish parents don't have to go through this , I hope and wish after this show the men , the unmarried men of our nation, come to their senses and do what MEN do , do what the reason they are called MEN.. and stop being beggars , MAKE SURE THERE PARENTS DONT BEHAVE LIKE BEGGARS..
The best would be as it happens in Western culture, the Groom-bride both organise their wedding with their own hard money.. Why don't we pick up good things from the western culture, and parents need to understand especially the mother in law's that what happened with them when they came as a bride , should be stopped and they are in the best possible position to make sure that what they went through, the new bride coming into their own family does not go through it again.
Our parents work so hard , maybe they should spend that hard-earned money on themselves and enjoy their life or what is left of it , Not spend it on us all our life .. Maybe we as kids WE should WAKE UP and think about our parents, Get out of our parents house and MAKE ONE OF OUR OWN, rather than live in our fathers house all our life too. Go out get a job and Earn our own.. Each of us boy-girl , use our money, and then FEEL how it is to spend the hard-earned money. Once a child turns 16 or 18 They should be asked to provide for themselves.


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Home Energy Magazine Online January/February 1995
Where Water-Heating Energy Really Goes
Water heating--which accounts for about 16% of U.S. residential energy consumption--is one of the most complex end uses to evaluate, both individually and nationally. Each home's use varies greatly, depending on technical, behavioral, and regional factors, as well as on the types of appliances present that use the hot water.
Studies of water heating often report the number of gallons per day of hot water use per household, averaged over all households with different appliances. This number is useful for determining total water-heating energy use, but it provides no guidance as to what impact specific conservation measures might have on that usage. It is also of limited usefulness in assessing the energy use for water heating in a particular household.
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The researchers also used the end use breakdown and data on equipment characteristics to assess the impacts of various efficiency standards on hot water use and water heater energy consumption. People designing programs that affect the energy use of electric water heaters now have a baseline to calculate savings against, and will know what the effect of national standards will be.
See The Effect of Efficiency Standards on Water Use and Water-Heating Energy Use in the U.S.: A Detailed End-Use Treatment, LBL-35475, J.G. Koomey, C. Dunham, and J.D. Lutz, Energy Analysis Program, Energy and Environment Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 , May 1994. Tel: (510)486-5001; Fax: (510)486-5454.
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